Fourth-generation Intel Core processors in MacBook Air give you more time to do more things. Add that to an array of other smart and efficient features, and you have an incredible amount of power in your hands. While carrying next to nothing.

Thanks to compact all-flash storage in MacBook Air, there’s plenty of room for a big battery. Working together with the power-efficient fourth-generation Intel Core architecture, this battery can post some impressive numbers. The 11-inch model gets up to nine hours of battery life on a single charge and the 13-inch model gets up to 12 hours. That gives you all-day power for surfing the web or watching iTunes movies. Put MacBook Air to sleep for more than three hours, and it enters standby mode to conserve battery life for up to 30 days.1 And if you enable Power Nap, you’ll continue to receive new email and calendar invitations while your computer is asleep.

MacBook Air is powered by fourth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. This remarkably efficient architecture was designed to use less power and still deliver high performance. Which means not only can you do whatever you want — you can keep doing it for longer than before. In addition, the Intel HD Graphics 5000 processor offers advanced performance you’ll especially notice with games and other graphics-intensive tasks.

MacBook Air supports ultrafast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. When connected to an 802.11ac base station — including AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule — wireless performance is up to three times faster than with the previous generation of Wi-Fi or MacBook Air with 802.11n Wi-Fi.2 And your Wi-Fi range improves as well. With Bluetooth technology, you can connect MacBook Air to Bluetooth-enabled devices like speakers and headphones. Even without all the wires, you’re totally connected.

1300 Mbps

802.11ac

450 Mbps

802.11n

54 Mbps

802.11g

Part of what makes MacBook Air so responsive is that it’s designed entirely around flash storage. Not only does this make MacBook Air much lighter and more portable than traditional notebooks, it also provides faster access to data. Available in capacities up to 512GB3, this PCIe-based flash storage is up to nine times faster than a traditional 5400-rpm notebook hard drive.4 So when you flip open MacBook Air, it’s ready to go straight away. Even after a month in standby mode, the screen springs to life.

With the lightning-fast Thunderbolt port, you can connect your MacBook Air to the latest devices and displays, like the Apple Thunderbolt Display. But that’s not the whole story. MacBook Air also comes equipped with two USB 3 ports, so you can connect the latest USB 3 devices and all your USB 2 devices as well. With just a few connections, MacBook Air transforms from an ultraportable notebook to a complete workstation.

Make FaceTime calls from your MacBook Air to an iPhone 4 or later, iPad,iPod touch, or another Mac running FaceTime for Mac.

LED-backlit display. Millions of pixels. Millimetres thin.

Corner to corner and pixel by pixel, the MacBook Air display is both an engineering feat and a design breakthrough. The display measures a mere 4.86 millimetres (0.19 inch) thin, yet its resolution makes you feel like you’re looking at a larger screen. The 11-inch MacBook Air features a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels, while the 13-inch model wows with a resolution of 1440 by 900 pixels. And LED backlighting makes colours bright and vibrant from edge to edge. So whether you’re editing photos, perfecting a presentation or watching a movie, you’re going to love what you see.

720p FaceTime HD camera.Stay sharp.

Let your friends and family see more of you with the 720p FaceTime HD camera. Every smile looks bright, even halfway around the world. And the widescreen format means everyone can fit into the picture without having to crowd around the display.

Dual mics. They’ll hear you loud and clear.

The dual microphones in MacBook Air are great for when you want to be heard. If you’re making a FaceTime call, for example, the mics reduce background noise from behind the notebook. And when you use Dictation, they create an adaptive audio beam that intelligently adjusts to detect your voice — instead of the noise around you.

The Multi-Touch gestures in OS X make everything you do on MacBook Air more intuitive, direct and fun. And the spacious Multi-Touch trackpad is perfectly designed for them, whether it’s a three-finger swipe to activate Mission Control or a four-finger pinch to see all your apps in Launchpad. Gesture responses are smooth and realistic. So when you’re scrolling up and down a web page or swiping from one full-screen app to another, it’s almost like you’re touching what you’re seeing.

Click

Press down anywhere to click. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, tap the trackpad.

Double-click

Press down two times anywhere. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, double-tap the trackpad.

Tap to zoom

Double-tap the trackpad with two fingers to magnify a web page or PDF.

Two-finger scroll

Slide two fingers up or down the trackpad to scroll through documents, websites and more.

Swipe to navigate

Flip through web pages, documents and more, as if you were thumbing through pages in a book.

View Mission Control

Swipe up on the trackpad to get a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac.

A pair of stereo speakers is hidden within the unibody enclosure.

As incredibly compact as MacBook Air is, it still manages to fit a full-size keyboard that makes typing as natural as it is comfortable. And the keyboard is backlit, so you can type with ease in even the dimmest light. A built-in ambient light sensor detects changes in lighting conditions and adjusts the display and keyboard brightness automatically. From a seat in a sunny café to a seat on a long-haul flight, you’ll always have the perfect lighting for any environment.

iCloud stores your content and lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents and more, from whatever device you’re on. So if you take a picture with your iPhone or make changes to your meeting schedule on your iPad, iCloud makes sure everything appears on your Mac too. And it works both ways — create a to-do list on your Mac and you can make edits to it on your iPhone.5Learn more about iCloud

Every new Mac comes with professional advice, award-winning service and support, and a world of online resources.

Support from AppleCare.

Products that you purchase in Australia are covered by Australian consumer law. For more details, click here. Your MacBook Air also comes with 90 days of complimentary telephone technical support and a one-year limited warranty from Apple. To learn more about how Apple will service your MacBook Air, click here.

Purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan to get up to three years of expert telephone technical support and additional hardware service options from Apple. For more information, click here.

Support from the Apple Retail Store.

You can always get expert advice at the Genius Bar in any Apple Retail Store. Even better, when you buy a Mac directly from Apple, you can sign up for One to One. A personal trainer will help you transfer files from your old computer and give you a year’s worth of in-person training sessions.

Testing conducted by Apple in March 2014 using preproduction 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5–based 13-inch MacBook Air units and preproduction 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5–based 11-inch MacBook Air units. The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 12 clicks from the bottom or 75 per cent. The HD movie playback test measures battery life by playing back HD 720p content with display brightness set to 12 clicks from the bottom or 75 per cent. The standby test measures battery life by allowing a system, connected to a wireless network and signed into an iCloud account, to enter standby mode with Safari and Mail applications launched and all system settings left at default. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See www.apple.com/au/batteries for more information.

Based on an IEEE 802.11ac draft specification. Performance based on comparison with Apple’s 802.11n products. Comparison assumes AirPort Extreme network with an 802.11ac-enabled computer. Speed and range will be less if an 802.11a/b/g product joins the network. Accessing the wireless network requires a Wi-Fi-enabled device. Actual speed will vary based on range, connection rate, site conditions, network size and other factors. Range will vary with site conditions.

1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.

Testing conducted by Apple in May 2013 using preproduction 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7–based 13-inch MacBook Air systems with 512GB of flash storage and 8GB of RAM, and preproduction 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7–based 11-inch MacBook Air systems with 512GB of flash storage and 8GB of RAM. 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i7–based 13-inch MacBook Air systems and 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i7–based 11-inch MacBook Air units with 512GB of flash storage and 8GB of RAM were production units. Testing conducted using Iometer 2006.07.27 with a 30-second ramp-up, five-minute run duration, 512KB request size, eight outstanding IOs and 150GB test file. MacBook Air continuously monitors system thermal and power conditions, and may adjust performance as needed to maintain optimal system operation.

iCloud requires an iCloud-enabled device. Some features require iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. Some features require a Wi‑Fi connection. Some features are not available in all countries. Access to some services is limited to 10 devices.